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A couple lines really bother me in this piece: "... it matters to you whether your phone has 64 or 128 GB of RAM" Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8

A couple lines really bother me in this piece: "... it matters to you whether your phone has 64 or 128 GB of RAM" Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8 GB of RAM on my desktop. "The first iPhone had apps..." The only apps the original iPhone had were the kind you could get on any feature phone: weather, stocks, etc... It wasn't until later that the app store opened and really changed things. As a whole, the article seems incredibly uninformed about technology. I would give the author a pass, but their conclusion doesn't seem to agree with history either. When the iPhone and iPad were released they were incredibly expensive and dismissed as toys for geeks. Less than a decade later those two devices have revolutionized technology and given Apple a dominant position. Apple has already crossed the chasm. Not with MacBooks, but with iPhones.

mkane848 10y ago
Yeah, even if you argue that the sideloaded app stores and whatnot that you could put on a jailbroken iPod Touch (remember those?) and 1st gen iPhones existed for a little before the official App Store, it was hardly the experience people think of today when talking about apps.
coldtea 10y ago
>Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8 GB of RAM on my desktop. They probably had in mind smartphone disk storage options. That said, technically speaking, they are correct in a pedantic way: a phone's SSD is also RAM, as there's a constant time of accessing any random address on the drive.
- paweltkaczyk 10y ago
  That's exactly what I meant :) RAM as in random access memory, as opposed to read-only memory. As you mentioned, I'm not uber-geek :)
paweltkaczyk 10y ago
I think MacBooks were created after the market crossed the chasm already. There was nothing revolutionary about those laptops. They just keep on improving them, making them… thinner.

mkane848 10y ago

Yeah, even if you argue that the sideloaded app stores and whatnot that you could put on a jailbroken iPod Touch (remember those?) and 1st gen iPhones existed for a little before the official App Store, it was hardly the experience people think of today when talking about apps.

coldtea 10y ago

>Holy Cow! I want that phone! I've only got 8 GB of RAM on my desktop. They probably had in mind smartphone disk storage options. That said, technically speaking, they are correct in a pedantic way: a phone's SSD is also RAM, as there's a constant time of accessing any random address on the drive.

paweltkaczyk 10y ago
That's exactly what I meant :) RAM as in random access memory, as opposed to read-only memory. As you mentioned, I'm not uber-geek :)

paweltkaczyk 10y ago

I think MacBooks were created after the market crossed the chasm already. There was nothing revolutionary about those laptops. They just keep on improving them, making them… thinner.